Message-Id: <mailto:199504241323.IAA24574@library.wustl.edu> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1995 09:20:38 +0000 From: Marty Wachter <mailto:mrw@WELCHGATE.WELCH.JHU.EDU> Subject: Re: Databases and HTML conversion. (fwd) (FYI) To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
--part_ABC11DE600012DEB00000002 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset˙-ASCII Content-Disposition: Inline> While Filemaker Pro has a nice interface it is very limiting in what
> you can do with it.
> It can't be used on its own to export information
> to HTML documents nor can it be used in interaction with a Web server.
Not so. If you know what you are doing you can have FM Pro export formated data in comma or tab delimited ASCII, DIF, DBF, SLYK, WKS, BASIC, Merge, and Publish an Subscribe. There are many users providing CGI interface from the acclaimed "MacHTTP" web server product to FM Pro databases using AppleScript, MacPerl, and other Mac scripting systems.
> It also doesn't provide any programming interface for more
> complex applications.
This is sort of true. While there is an internal scripting language and full AppleEvent support, a full featured programming language is absent.
> Its file format is also not importble by other
> more powerful database software.
Not true. See prior response.
> Personally, I wouldn't recomend
> using Filemaker for any database more complicated than a simple
> mailing list.
You should become more familiar with a package before recommending or not recommending it to a potential user. I have personally setup a sales order system for a multi-billion dollar business on FileMaker pro.
-mrw
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Marty Wachter Senior Software Engineer - JHU School of Medicine
"Cool applications derive default preferences from the user's use of an application, not from clever imitations of the System 6 Control Panel." - D. Falkenburg --part_ABC11DE600012DEB00000002--